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Tip of the Month:
Too often in examining or cross examining an expert, questions go unasked because it is assumed that the professional is qualified to perform certain tasks or procedures. Therefore, specific questions about their background are not asked and assumed not needed. It is important to ask the professional specific questions regarding their education, training and experience. If they are conducing a child custody evaluation, it may be informative where they obtained the training in child custody evaluations. This is especially true for examining psychiatrists. It can be very enlightening to discover the professional simply read a book about the area of "expertise" with little or no training. Feature Article: It is important to mention that the perpetrators of PAS are committing a form of child abuse. Specifically it is a form of emotional abuse that can not only produce a child's lifelong alienation for a loving parent, but can also result in lifelong psychiatric disturbances in the child as well. Execution of PAS is programming into the child the denigration and rejection of a loving parent while disregarding the alienated parent's role in the child's life. From the point of view of a mental health professional, PAS programming is evidence that there is a serious parental deficit in the alienating parent. Depending upon the degree of alienation, one has to weight how much visitation is appropriate for the alienating parent and the necessary treatment they must receive into to normalize the parent-child relationship. I hope this information is helpful, until next time, sincerely, Robert A. Evans, Ph.D.
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